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Thomas Anderson (1819-1874)
  • Born in Scotland.
  • He discovered pyridine.
  • He isolated and investigated pyrrole.

Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927)
  • Born in Sweden.
  • He researched electrolytic dissociation.
  • He developed the Arrhenius equation.
  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1903.

Francis William Ashton (1877-1945)
  • Born in England.
  • He performed pioneer work on isotopes and their separation by mass spectograph.
  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1922.

Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo Avogadro (1776-1856)
  • Born in Italy.
  • He proposed the principle that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of atoms.
  • He formulated Avogadro's Law.